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The Lounge Singer
Sherry stopped drinking when she was 24 years old. This self imposed abstainment was precipitated by her waking up in her own bed and needing to escape from an invited intruder. She had woken up in her bed with her boss asleep by her side, again. He was married and had kids, was…
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A Sense of Entitlement – Happiness, Time and Love
I was speaking with one of my Facebook friends whom I do not remember ever meeting – but never the less – I read her status’ and admire her thinking. We were discussing life and dreams. How people all around us take the gifts that have been bestowed upon us and act as if its…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 7 – Hope’s Alive But Asleep
Abraham lifted his leg and smashed his foot down on the glass. It was a symbolic act that his bride’s family, of Ashkenazim origin, had requested be kept. He complied but couldn’t understand the mourning for a city that was once again in the possession of the Jewish people. (The breaking of the glass in…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 6
Abe Gallo was worried. He knew that the Americans would be thrust into the war in Europe sooner or later – rather sooner than later. His sons were 17 and 15 in 1939 and he could not imagine them having to go off and fight in a war. But make no mistake about it –…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 5 – “America!”
Ibrahim Gallo was 30 when he left Beyrouth, Syria on a ship to France – then went on the Rochambeau from Le Havre, France to Ellis Island in America. He went to “America” to set up a place to live, get a job and hopefully find jobs for his children. He had 6 of them back…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 4
Gabriela held her grandmother’s hand as they walked into the cafe on 12th and Broadway. Grandma Gabriela was Gabriela’s closest confidant her whole life. Even more so than her mother. Her mother, Diane, was too obsessed with happiness to give advice that might be somewhat risky or even the right thing to do if it…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 3
“A chance encounter…life is shaped and formed by a series of chance encounters. I am sorry about leaving…I needed to go.” His eyes began to well up.
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 2
Johnny liked her hair natural. She had no makeup on but it didn’t matter to him. All he saw was her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she looked into his and her hair as she twirled it with her left hand. Gabriela had a dark complexion, green eyes and curly dark brown hair.…
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Chance Encounters – Chapter 1 – A Chance Encounter
Oh she was pissed. She had just straightened her hair by one of those Israeli dudes on 75th Street on the East Side and now she was caught in this drenching rain. No, not drenching rain but a complete opening of the skies which came down as if she was under Niagara Falls. She had…
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Get Checked before you Join the Wrong Zipper Club
On March 5 or 6th I was feeling burning sensations each time I exerted myself. On the 7th I went to the doctor and was immediately told to go to the emergency room to be given a Angiogram. I was scared and I intuitively knew as I went to the ER with my…
